Day 1: American Colonies to Civil War
During this event in 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, killing five colonists.
Bonus: Which American colonist created an engraving showing British soldiers firing on peaceful colonists to encourage colonial resistance to British rule? (100 points)
The Boston Massacre
Bonus: Paul Revere
What was the name of journalists and writers who exposed problems in American society during the Progressive Era?
Bonus: Name some important journalists and writers who exposed problems in American society (100 points each)
Muckrakers
Bonus: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis
What was the name of the government programs that aimed to end the Great Depression and help struggling Americans?
Bonus: Which President led this program? (100 points)
The New Deal (Three goals: Relief for struggling Americans, Recovery for businesses and farmers, Reform the government to prevent another Great Depression)
Bonus: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
This movement used nonviolent protests and court cases to challenge segregation
Bonus: What are some key events of his movement? (100 points each)
Civil Rights Movement
Bonus: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock Nine, Birmingham Campaign, March on Washington
What is the name for separate schools, restaurants, buses and public places for White and Black Americans?
Bonus: Which law outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment? (100 points)
Segregation
Bonus: Civil Rights Act of 1964
This compromise banned slavery in most territories north of the 36°30′ line, except Missouri
Bonus: What act canceled this compromise? (100 points)
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Bonus: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation was constitutional as long as separate facilities were “equal.”
Bonus: Which laws enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, restaurants, and many public places? (100 points)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Bonus: Jim Crow laws
This international organization was created after World War I to prevent future wars
Bonus: Did the United States join this organization? (100 points)
League of Nations
Bonus: No, the US did not join the League of Nations because the Senate feared it would lead to the United States being forced into unnecessary foreign wars
This Supreme Court decision declared that segregated public schools were unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The main goal of this Cold War policy was to stop the spread of communism
Bonus: What are some examples of this policy enacted by the United States? (100 points each)
Containment Policy
Bonus: Truman Doctrine, Domino Theory, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Vietnam War
This Enlightenment idea states that the government receives its power from the people
consent of the governed
What is the name of newspapers that use exaggerated stories, shocking headlines, and sometimes false information to attract readers?
Bonus: What war did these newspapers and the explosion of the USS Maine lead to?
Yellow Journalism
Bonus: The Spanish-American War
This executive order led to the internment of Japanese Americans
Bonus: Which Supreme Court case upheld the government’s wartime actions of Japanese internment? (100 points)
Executive Order 9066
Bonus: Korematsu v. United States (1944)
This law protected voting rights for African Americans
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This system allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches
checks and balances
Why did Anti-Federalists support adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
They wanted to protect individual freedoms
What did the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments do?
Bonus: What document declared that enslaved people in the Confederate states were free during the Civil War? (100 points)
13th: Freedom for slaves, 14th: Citizenship for former slaves, 15th: protected the right to vote for African American men (FREE CITIZENS VOTE)
Bonus: Emancipation Proclamation
Which act passed in 1935 prevented the United States from selling weapons or lending money to countries at war?
Bonus: Which act passed in 1941 allowed the U.S. to send weapons, supplies, and equipment to allied countries? (100 points)
Neutrality Acts
Bonus: Lend-Lease Act
Which act gave law enforcement agencies expanded powers to investigate suspected terrorism?
Bonus: What is a major debate of critics surrounding this act?
USA PATRIOT Act
Bonus: critics argue is threatens civil liberties in exchange for national security
What is the name of the policy of expanding a nation’s political, military, or economic influence over other countries?
Bonus: What connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? (100 points)
Imperialism
Bonus: The Panama Canal
Which was one major effect of European colonization on Native American populations?
Native populations declined because of disease and warfare
What is the process of changing from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy?
Bonus: What is it called when one company controls an entire industry to limit competition and raise prices? (100 points)
Industrialization
Bonus: monopoly (trusts are when several companies are controlled by a group of people and work together to limit competition and raise prices)
This Cold War foreign policy promised American economic and military aid to countries fighting against communist governments.
Bonus: Which Cold War policy gave billions of dollars to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II? (100 points)
Truman Doctrine (Turkey and Greece were the first countries to receive aid from the US)
Bonus: Marshall Plan
In the Election of 2000, the winner of the presidency was determined primarily by which system?
Bonus: What is the difference between popular vote vs electoral votes? (200 points)
The electoral college
Bonus: popular vote = when a candidate gets the most votes in a state or in the nation as a whole
electoral votes = votes that are given to candidates who won the popular vote in that state (based on state population)
What is the name of the growing connection between countries through trade, communication, technology, and transportation?
Globalization